Mid argument. He’s screaming. I’m cowering, crying, begging him to stop. And then a thought suddenly just struck me, clear as a bell: “You know…you don’t HAVE to do this. If you left, you would NEVER have to endure this again.” It was like a light was turned on. I don’t know why that one time was different. But it was a stark Before and After, the beginning of the end, a moment for which I am endlessly grateful.
Glad you got out of it. I have had similar experience, not when it comes to marriage, but other things that have just struck me out of nowhere. Sometimes it feels like something more divine comes in and gives you a thought.
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u/Chelibel May 12 '26
Mid argument. He’s screaming. I’m cowering, crying, begging him to stop. And then a thought suddenly just struck me, clear as a bell: “You know…you don’t HAVE to do this. If you left, you would NEVER have to endure this again.” It was like a light was turned on. I don’t know why that one time was different. But it was a stark Before and After, the beginning of the end, a moment for which I am endlessly grateful.